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We theoretically investigate the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) at the interface between 3D strong topological insulator (TI) and layered superconductor-magnetic insulator structure. The tunability of SPP through electronic doping can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Mingda Li , Zuyang Dai , Wenping Cui , Zhe Wang , Ferhat Katmis , Peisi Le , Jiayue Wang , Lijun Wu , Yimei Zhu

We investigate single interface surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) excited by electromagnetic waves under general electromagnetic boundary conditions that allow for non-zero surface charge and surface current densities. Incorporating these,…

Optics · Physics 2014-09-16 Weiguo Yang , Michael A. Fiddy

We demonstrate both analytically and numerically the existence of optical pulling forces acting on particles located near plasmonic interfaces. Two main factors contribute to the appearance of this negative reaction force. The interference…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-25 M. I. Petrov , S. V. Sukhov , A. A. Bogdanov , A. S. Shalin , A. Dogariu

We demonstrate that surface plasmon polaritons can be guided by nanometer scale dielectric waveguides. In a test experiment plasmons were coupled to a curved 3 micrometer radius dielectric stripe, which was 200 nm wide and 138 nm thick…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Igor I. Smolyaninov , Yu-Ju Hung , Christopher C. Davis

Quantum photonic integrated circuits (QPICs) based on dielectric waveguides have been widely used in linear optical quantum computation. Recently, surface plasmons have been introduced to this application because they can confine and…

A rigorous formulation for the scattering of surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) from a one-dimensional surface defect of any shape that yields the electromagnetic field in the vacuum half-space above the vacuum-metal interface is developed by…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Sanchez-Gil , A. A. Maradudin

The surface plasmon-polaritons (SPPs) switch is the key element of the integrated devices in optical computation and terahertz (THz) communications. In this paper, we propose a novel design of THz SPPs switch based on quantum engineering.…

Metasurfaces, with intrinsically planar nature and subwavelength thickness, provide us unconventional methodologies to not only mold the flow of propagating waves but also manipulate near-field waves. Plasmonic metasurfaces with topological…

We study the dispersion properties of surface plasmon oscillations in a semi-bounded semiconductor plasma with the effects of the Coulomb exchange force associated with the spin polarization of electrons and holes as well as the effects of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 M. Shamansouri , A. P. Misra

Quasi-crystals are intriguing as they exhibit rotational symmetry and long range ordering but lack translational symmetry. 2-dimensional metal-dielectric patterns are interesting to make use of surface plasmon polariton (SPP) mediated local…

We consider scattering of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) and light by individual high-refractive-index dielectric nanoparticles (NPs) located on a metal (gold) substrate and supporting electric and magnetic dipole resonances in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Andrey B. Evlyukhin , Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi

Absorbing and emitting optical properties of a spherical plasmonic nanoantenna are described in terms of the size dependent resonance frequencies and damping rates of the multipolar surface plasmons (SP). We provide the plasmon size…

Optics · Physics 2011-04-05 Krystyna Kolwas , Anastasiya Derkachova

The canonical boundary-value problem for surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves guided by the planar interface of a dielectric material and a plasmonic material was solved for cases wherein either partnering material could be a uniaxial…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-18 Chenzhang Zhou , Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

We show that the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) radiation patterns of point-dipole emitters in the vicinity of a metal-dielectric interface are generally asymmetric with respect to the location of the emitter. In particular rotating…

Optics · Physics 2013-12-02 J. P. Balthasar Mueller , Federico Capasso

Dispersion properties of metals and propagation of quantum bulk plasmon in the high photon energy regime are studied. The nonlocal dielectric permittivity of a metal is determined by the quantum plasma effects and is calculated by applying…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-23 M. Moaied , M. M. A. Yajadda , K. Ostrikov

When placed near a thin metallic film, excitons in a quantum dot (QD) decay into surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), guided modes of light confined at the interface of the metal/dielectric. It was reported that the interaction of SPPs with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-13 Fernando W. de Alencar Sobreira , Yuriy I. Mazur , Xian Hu , Gregory J. Salamo , Euclydes Marega

Physical mechanisms unique to plasmonic materials, which can be exploited for the existing and emerging applications of plasmonics for renewable energy technologies, are reviewed. The hybrid nature of surface plasmon (SP) modes -…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-28 Svetlana V. Boriskina , Hadi Ghasemi , Gang Chen

Surface polaritons at a meta-material interface are proposed as qubits. The SP fields are shown to have low losses, subwavelength confinement and can demonstrate very small modal volume. These important properties are used to demonstatre…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-28 Ali A. Kamli , Sergey A. Moiseev , Barry C. Sanders

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) give an opportunity to break the diffraction limit and design nanoscale optical components, however their practical implementation is hindered by high ohmic losses in a metal. Here, we propose a novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Dmitry A. Svintsov , Aleksey V. Arsenin , Dmitry Yu. Fedyanin

Combining miniaturization and good operating speed is a compelling yet crucial task for our society. Plasmonic waveguides enable the possibility of carrying information at optical operating speed while maintaining the dimension of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 C. E. A. Cordaro , G. Piccitto , F. Priolo